COVID-19 Vaccine for Undocumented People
COVID-19 Vaccine for Undocumented People 23 February 2021 Open Letter issued by: Global South Against Xenophobia (GSAX) – C19 People’s Coalition Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) South African [...]
Extend Relief Funding to Save ECD Sector
For Immediate Release 17 February 2021 A crisis has developed in the ECD sector in South Africa related to Covid-19, lockdown measures put in place since March 2020, and the October ECD [...]
#PayTheGrants Joint Statement: On SONA & extension of the SRD R350 Grant
#PayTheGrants Joint Statement: President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address announced a three month extension of the R350 COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant but falls short [...]
In Solidarity with Heathfield High School and Wesley Neumann
In Solidarity with Heathfield High School and Wesley Neumann We note with concern recent revelations regarding the disciplinary hearing process of Heathfield High School principal, Wesley Neumann [...]
Save Our ECD Workforce: We Are Running Out Of Time
Save Our ECD Workforce: We Are Running Out Of Time Media release by the ECD & Basic Education Working Group of the C-19 People Coalition [3rd February 2021] The Early Childhood Development [...]
People’s Vaccine Campaign: Letter from Archbishop Thabo Makgoba to Dr Anthony Fauci and Others
30 January 2021 URGENT To: Dr Tony Fauci and Dr Rochelle Walensky And to: Dr David Kessler; Dr Vivek Murthy; and Dr Marcella Nunez-Smith Per e-mail URGENT – VACCINE ACCESS IN SOUTH AFRICA [...]
#PayTheGrants Press Conference
Date: Thursday 28 January Time: 11h00 – 11h45 AM Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4sRp4zgJQYOVMUWvSwhWDg Members of the media are invited to a press conference on the [...]
Coalition Statement: Johann Rupert and Vaccine Equity
For Immediate Release 25 January 2021 The recent news of South African billionaire, Johann Rupert, reportedly ‘jostling’ the vaccination queue in Switzerland, is a stark display of the burgeoning [...]
JOINT STATEMENT: EXTEND THE GRANTS!
For Immediate Release 25 January 2021 As the death toll of the second wave of COVID-19 continues to devastate the country and lockdown Level 3 is extended by at least six weeks, the government [...]
Letter to the President: Extend the Grants
25 January 2021 Dear Mr President, We write to you at a time when you are understandably grief stricken at the loss of Honourable Minister Jackson Mthembu. We send you our sincere condolences, [...]